Tattoo

I love New York City in the spring! Cafés put their tables and chairs outside for outdoor dining, you see more skin on the girls than clothing, and there are people everywhere! So, when I played my first gi...

On my way into work one afternoon, I noticed a tattoo shop on Tilton Road in Northfield, NJ, that stuck out like a sore thumb. This little shore town that’s only ten minutes out of Atlantic City seemed a li...

Last September, as I walked around a jam-packed Inked Out Tattoo Show at the Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus, NJ, I came across a Staten Island tattoo shop that I would come to learn had a pretty intere...

My bro Jeff Dixon from the band Lowbuz recently emailed me that his buddy, Bruce Walker, was opening a tattoo shop in Fair Lawn, NJ, right next door to my old stomping grounds of Saddle Brook, NJ. Needless ...

Last year, my girl won a trip through work to beautiful Costa Rica! It was there, where we learned the phrase “Pura vida,” which was used as a greeting in this rainforest region. Pura vida translated from S...

It’s been about five years since I last visited my favorite tattoo shop in New Jersey. Yes, I’m talking about Pure Ink in Ledgewood, NJ, only the last time I was there, they were in a different location. Ow...

Woodland Park, NJ
I was recently contacted by former Physical Graffiti tattoo artist Geoff Horn because he just opened his own tattoo shop, Hole in the Sky Tattoo Parlor, in the goody-goody suburbs of Wo...

FEATURED ARTIST: Joseph Ari Aloi aka JK5
Every month I feature a tattoo shop here in “Inked Out,” but this month I have a pretty interesting story about a tattoo artist named Joseph Ari Aloi, who also go...

GRACELAND TATTOO—Wappingers Falls, NY
I recently received an email about a shop that I visited back in 2009 up in Wappingers Falls, NY. The shop is called Graceland Tattoo, and owner Adam Lauricella emaile...

SACRED TATTOO—New York City
Having to celebrate Chinese New Year’s in Chinatown this year with my family, I had the opportunity to walk through the streets of downtown Manhattan when I went from the park...